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Anima Mundi
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMark Ryden
San Francisco: Porterhouse Fine Art Editions and Last Gasp, 2001.Monograph from the early-mid career of the highly influential lowbrow pop surrealist American painter Mary Ryden (1963-). This copy signed by Ryden to the title page.
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Eye 5 Eroticisma
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMary Seamster
Santa Barbara: Eye Magazine, 1983.Artists book/magazine published in a numbered edition of 152 copies. This issue devoted to eroticism, and containing numerous signed original artworks, photographs, and collage. The artists are: Jas R Babbe, Chris Bastian, David Bottoms, Tom Clark, Flora Durham, Doug Edges, Sam Erenberg, Pat Fish, Tim Goetz, Marsea Goldberg, Jeff Greenwald, Jenny Hankwitz, Ken Hendrickson, David Holland, Michael Irwin, Starke Jett, Susan Jorgensen, Barbara Kapusnak, Steve Knauff, Penny Mast, Paul McCarthy, Michael Napper, Dwayne Newton, David Ossman, Somers Randolph, Jim Risser, Richard Ross, Mary Seamster, Elena Siff, James Taylor, Kerry Tomlinson, Dug Eyesaka, Shelly Vogel, and Seyburn Zorthian.
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CONTACT 1, 2, 3 (3 Volumes)
AU$350.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJeff Goldberg
Philadelphia: Red Room Books, 1972.First three issues of the literary journal CONTACT edited by Jeff Goldberg, all published in the space of 5 days in December 1972. These initial issues containing Goldberg’s A Week in Philadelphia, and other writings by Goldberg, Victor Bockris, Andrew Wylie, Marty Watt, and Ken Bluford. CONTACT ran for only 7 issues, however after issue 3 there was a change in editorial direction with the remaining issues largely focusing on an individual writer and running with contributions from a wider pool rather than the focused combined output of these Philadelphians, from their young and heady days trying to make their lives as poets.
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The Virgin Sperm Dancer
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Levy
The Hague: Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, 1978.An ecstatic journey of a boy transformed into a girl for one day only, and her erotic adventures in Amsterdam, magic centrum. A classic publication from the age of sexual liberation, The virgin sperm dancer is an early photobook which illustrates the story of Joop, a young Dutch man who experiences a day transformed as Joopie, a sexually awakened woman. Published as a Suck Special Issue of the Amsterdam-based pornography magazine Suck, The virgin sperm dancer clearly aims to titillate with its uncensored graphic photographs of the escapades in this fantasy. However through the lengthy narrative and exploration of the versatility of sexual experience, Sperm Dancer finds itself as a prototype for later works that explore sexual freedom and concepts of gender. Through depictions of free love in Amsterdam in the 70s with a focus on transsexuality, bisexuality, transvestism, and homosexuality, Sperm dancer avoids gender paradigms of masculinity and power, and includes women’s sexual empowerment and orgasm as a focus of the work. Unusually for a sex magazine, this standalone publication does not appear to pitch its eroticism to a particular sexuality but rather embraces the versatility of sexual experience as being its greatest appeal. The Virgin Sperm Dancer was immediately influential and homaged on the cover of the September 1972 issue of London Oz. A second edition was published in 1978. Suck is touted as the first European sex newspaper and was launched in London in 1969 before moving to Amsterdam to avoid England’s anti-obscenity laws.
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Art & Beauty Magazine: Numbers 1, 2 & 3: Drawings by R. Crumb
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Crumb
New York: David Zwirner Books, 2016.Erotic drawings by Robert Crumb. #1 was first published in 1996 by Kitchen Sink Press, with a second volume in 2003 by Fantagraphic. This volume reprinting the first two numbers and publishing for the first time number 3 together in a limited edition of 400 copies, signed and numbered on a bookplate by Crumb, and comes in the original publisher’s shipping box. “Drawings of women in positions ranging from lascivious to modest or mid-sport are accompanied by quotations, many of which are from artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Harvey Kurtzman. Mining his own obsessions and fantasies, Crumb reimagines the history of art, challenging notions of beauty, along with society’s mores and expectations of propriety around the female form.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Grateful Dead Comix
AU$3,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJerry Garcia; Jeff Tamarkin; David Schreiner
Princeton and New York: Kitchen Sink Press and Hyperion, 1992.The ultimate Deadhead comix collection. One of 500 numbered copies of the deluxe edition signed by Jerry Garcia with a silver bas-relief to the upper board designed by Peter Poplaski.
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R. Crumb Draws the Blues
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Crumb
London: Knockabout Comics, 1992.Collection of music comics by underground comix legend Robert Crumb from Zap, Weirdo, et al. One of the limited hardcover edition of 200 signed and numbered copies.
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Weirdo No. 1
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Crumb
Berkeley: Last Gasp, 1981.“Picking up where Zap left off, Weirdo defined a new aesthetic for the ’80s, opening the way towards a new wave of comics literacy for a generation of outcasts, oddballs and revolutionaries. Weirdo #1, helmed by Robert Crumb, features comics from Crumb, satiric ads, photo-funnies from “Stomp” Gamos and Weirdo staff, Stanislav Szukalski, Bruce Duncan, Brueghel, a Sub-Genius spread and more!” (publisher’s blurb)
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Yellow Dog Nos. 1-12
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDon Schencker; Robert Crumb; John Thompson; Joel Beck
Berkeley: Print Mint, 1973.One of the seminal underground comix series featuring work by R. Crumb, Joel Beck, S. Clay Wilson, Gilbert Shelton, Robert Williams, Rick Griffin, Greg Irons, Trina Robbins, Andy Martin, Franz Cilensek, John Thompson, and others. The special fifth anniversary limited edition printing published in 1973, containing the first 12 numbers (9/10 and 11/12 are double issues) on tabloid newsprint (from number 13 it switched from a tabloid to a magazine format) contained in the original issue envelope.
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Remember, Be Here Now
AU$850.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRam Dass
San Cristobel: Lama Foundation, 1971.First edition, first printing, of the psychedelic/yoga/philosophy/counterculture classic by LSD spiritualist Ram Dass nee Harvard Professor Richard Alpert.
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High Priest
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTimothy Leary
Berkeley: Ronin Publishing, 1995.The signed and numbered issue of the Second Edition of Leary’s psychedelic cult persona forming record of 16 trips during his Harvard study days led by guides Aldous Huxley, Allen Ginsberg, R. Gordon Wasson, Ram Dass (Richard Alpert), Ralph Metzner, Huston Smith, William S. Burroughs, Michael Hollingshead, and others. Containing the original art from the first edition by Allen Atwell and Michael Green, and with new art for this edition by Howard Hallis.
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Hallucinogens: A Comprehensive Guide for Laymen and Professionals
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJoe E. Axton; Jeremy Bigwood; Jonathan Ott
Tempe: DIN Publications, 1984.A comprehensive introductory booklet on psychedelics and the psychedelic experience by the Do It Now Foundation. While short, it is quite detailed and covers topics and substances often excluded from similar booklets. Scarce, 5 copies in OCLC, all in the United States.
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The Sacred Mushroom: Key to the Door of Eternity
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAndrija Puharich
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1959.“The search for the secret plant of the ancients, used to send the mind to another world and into the future.” (from wrapper) A parapsychological researcher conducts an investigation of the Amanita muscaria and its effects on humans. One of the early works of psychedelic mushroom research, published only 2 years after the Wassons’ ethnomycological founding work Mushrooms, Russia and History.
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Fumee D’Opium
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartClaude Farrere
Paris: Libraire Olendorff, 1921.The first deluxe edition of Farrere’s Black Opium, semi-autobiographical tales of the history and use of opium. Preface by Pierre Louys. With 6 plates and numerous wood engravings by Georges Jauneau, engraved by G. Lemoine. One of 250 numbered copies on Arches Vellum (of a total edition of 322).
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The Idol: Opium, Heroin, Morphine and Their Kingdoms
AU$4,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDr. Cantala
New York: Botwen Printing Co.,, 1924.Considered one of the scarcest books in all of psychoactive drug literature and one of the most important on opiate addiction, predicting the development of synthetic opioids by some 35 years. “Devoted to the medical and social uses of opiates, including sections on opium dens, needlemania, the psychology of the addict, the nature of opiate intoxication, love among addicts, etc. There are chapters on cocaine and hashish, and another on Dr. Cantala’s method of cure.” (William Dailey via Gertz: Dope Menace pp. 30). One of a small number bound in cloth with the original wrapper illustration mounted. 4 copies recorded in OCLC, all in the United States.
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Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide, or Dephlogisticated Nitrous Air, and Its Respiration
AU$6,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHumphry Davy
London: J. Johnson, 1800.Researches, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide. Published when Davy was only 22, outlining his experiments with nitrous, coining the term laughing gas, and suggesting to its anesthetic qualities, which were not regularly used in medicine for many years to come. A landmark work in chemistry and anesthesia. Provenance: Pencil signature of British crime writer and anaesthetist William Stanley Sykes (1894-1961) with three lines of pencil annotation to front free endpaper
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The Artistry of Mixing Drinks
AU$900.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrank Meier
Paris: Fryam Press, 1936.One of the classic cocktail books of the 1930s: a guide to the art by the chemist, physiologist, and psychologist of the first order (and later hero of the Resistance), the head bartender at the Ritz, Frank Meier An unnumbered and uncut copy of the 700 copies on cream vellum (from the total edition of 1,026).
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A Philosophical and Statistical History of the Inventions and Customs of Ancient and Modern Nations in the Manufacture and use of Inebriating Liquors;
AU$650.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSamuel Morewood
Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Company, and William Carson, 1838.with the Present Practice of Distillation in all its varieties: together with an extensive illustration of the Consumption and Effects of Opium, and other stimulants used in the East, as substitutes for wine and spirits. The greatly expanded second edition, including sections on distillation in the colony of New South Wales, and the use of opium and other drugs around the world.
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Ampelographie Rhenane ou Description Caracteristique, Historique, Synonymique, Agronomique et Economique des Cepages les Plus Estimes
AU$4,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartM. J. L. Stoltz
Paris and Mulhouse: Dusacq and J. P. Risler, 1852.One of the foundational texts of European ampelography with 30 colour lithorgraphs of grapes, grapevines and leaves. The standard work on Alsace and southern German grape varieties, wine, and viticultural history in the Rhine Valley.
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A New Dictionary of Natural History; or, Compleat Universal Display of Animated Nature. With Accurate Representations of the Most Curious and Beautiful Animals, Elegantly Coloured.
AU$5,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Frederic Martyn
London: Harrison and Co., 1785.Popular 18th century reference work by William Fordyce Mavor under his Martyn pseudonym, with 100 hand-coloured plates each depicting 4 to 9 animals, insects, or shells.